part 1: books from childhood
- The Sailor Dog
- My Father’s Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannet
- Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
- Wild Animals I Have Known, Ernest Thompson Seton
- Just-So Stories: For Little Children, Rudyard Kipling
- The Story about Ping, Marjorie Flack
part 2: … as a young adult
- Narcissus and Goldmund, Herman Hesse
- Heart of DarknessW
- Siddartha
part 3: … as an adult
- The River of Doubt, Candice Millard
- The Big Burn, Timothy Egan
- Visible Bones, Jack Nisbett
- The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, David Quamman.
- The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, Jonathan Weiner
- The Odyssey, Homer
- The Iliad, Homer
- Plutarch’s Lives
- The Traveler’s History of France, Robert Cole
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Peter Grubb is my uncle; read about Family First Friday’s in the Magpie Blog!